Business Investments

Next-Generation Fuels & Petroleum Business Division

Astomos Energy Corporation: Owned 49% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Carries out LPG related business such as import, trading, domestic logistics, sales to both domestic/oversea customers.
Mitsubishi Corporation Energy Co., Ltd.: Owned 100% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Domestic sales of various petroleum products, import and export trading and, through group companies, developping automobile related e-commerce business, etc.

SPDC Ltd.: Owned 33.34% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Company investing, on the Japanese side, in Saudi Arabia's SHARQ petrochemical business. SHARQ's production capacity is 1.55 million tons of PE and 1.375 million tons of EG, making it one of the global leaders.
EXPORTADORA DE SAL,S.A.DE C.V. (ESSA): Owned 49% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Joint venture with the Mexican government consisting of the largest salt field business in the world. Salt is produced using an environmentally friendly open-air manufacturing approach in which solar energy is used to evaporate seawater.
METANOL DE ORIENTE,METOR, S.A. (METOR): Owned 25% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Manufactures natural gas-based methanol in Venezuela, which it sells primarily to Europe.
CARIBBEAN GAS CHEMICAL LIMITED (CGCL): The company produces 1 million tons/year of methanol in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, using locally-sourced natural gas as the main raw material.

Mitsubishi Corporation Plastics Ltd.: Owned 100% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Sales of synthetic resin raw materials and products, both in Japan and overseas.
Mitsubishi Shoji Chemical Corp.: Owned 100% by Mitsubishi Corporation. Sale of solvents, silicone, and fumed silica.
IVICT Europe GmbH IVICT (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. IVICT (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. IVICT (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. IVICT (Thailand) Company Limited: In October 2018, five overseas sales companies in the four countries of Germany, China, Singapore and Thailand were established to handle chemical product related business.